Big Data: Looking back at advancements in 2017 and likely trends for 2018 Forbes India Blog

Bidding farewell to 2017 and just in the third month of 2018, we observe marked differences in the Big Data space. Last year's trends focused on major themes such as: management of Big Data, security and privacy of the data and its access, emergence of cloud as a front runner in data management, tempering of hype and expectation cycles, emergency of internet of things (IoT) as a major data generator, emergence of new tools in the end-to-end data management and data governance space, emergence of self-service analytical tools where they catered to data ingestion, manipulation, wrangling, analytics and reporting, and artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) got good traction. Overall, 2017 has turned out to be a year of Technology Strategy rather than a business-focused strategy, with many organisations having ventured into PoC on AI, ML and Data Science. The year gone by also saw emergence of NoSQL databases in a fierce competition to Hadoop Storage. The year that will be Infonomics and data monetisation ideas will take root in 2018, which would try to put a value on the data that has been captured.